Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun

Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun, abbreviated as CEEBJ, is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 2020 West Brown Deer Road, River Hills, Wisconsin, in the United States.

Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun began in Milwaukee in 1847 with 12 men who gathered at the home of Isaac Neustadel for a Yom Kippur service.

Following that, members of Ahavath Emuno who found they preferred the German style, left to form a third congregation, Anshe Emeth, for a total of three synagogues in the small Jewish community of 200 families.

[1] When Isaac Mayer Wise, the founder of Reform Judaism, visited Milwaukee in 1856, he persuaded Imanu-Al and Ahavath Emuno to consolidate into Congregation B’ne Jeshurun.

On September 16, 1859 the 115 Jewish families of Milwaukee were united in a ceremony complete with a procession, a ball, and speeches in both English and German.